January 16 it is Karl's Day in our house, since two years ago Karl
saved our lives. Karl normlly slept thru the night, not even severe
acid reflux woke him. On January 16, 2008 at 3:00 in the morning Karl
woke up screaming, I tried to settle him down but he kept screaming.
Since I was pregnant after a few minutes I had to go to the bathroom,
after which I smelled oil really strong. I called my husband and he said
to call the fire department. The fireman had me take the kids out of
the house and put them in the car. They came in with a meter and the
alarm went off, Carbon Monoxide was filling the house. Since Karl
woke me early enough, there was no CM in our blood. They said if Karl
hadn't woken us, we would have died that morning. So we have made
January 16 Karl's Day since he is a hero. Yesterday I bought Karl a toy
piano & two shirts. He ran straight to the piano and started to
play, boy does he love music. Later on I showed him the shirts and he
said "Oh cool", I was so excited because it wasn't scripted talk. It was
a huge breakthough for him, he has been working so hard lately. At the
gym when we leave he says "bye Friends" to all the other kids. This
morning I woke to hear him trying to sing his ABC's. Karl is a hero in
so many ways, not only did he saved our lives that night but what he
does everyday to come out of his shell, to overcome the limitations that
Autism trys to put on him, makes him an incredible little boy,
My Hero.
My cute, adorable Kyle has entered stripping stage,
yesterday I re-dressed him several times. It seems he does not want to
keep his clothes on, this was the worst when I went thru it with Karl. I
would re-dress Karl around 30 times a day, it took three months to
break the habit. I really hope I can break Kyle of this stage quickly.
Donald and I had a great talk on Friday night, he explained that he has
learned what he did to Karl was wrong and that he will try to stop
controlling the boys every move. That seems to be the real issue, Donald
wants the boys to think & act like him. So we talked about how he
wants others to accept him as he is and he needs to accept that the boys
for who they are. And that they have the right to think for
themselves, that their thoughts & actions can be different fom his.
Putting it to him like this really made sense to him and he promises to
work on it. At one point he stated that he can not say 3 & 30, then
he started to cry. I guess his teacher corrected him a few times in
class that day and it upset him a lot. After listening to him and
watching him talk, I found that his tongue does not touch his teeth when
he makes the "th" sound. So we will do some mirror exercises to help
him. I will also be writing his teacher about talking to him on the side
and not in front of the whole class as he can not handle it at this
time.
As for me, this weekend I was able to take yogalates
& yoga classes, it is so relaxing to have that quiet time all to
myself. K.M. called me on Saturday saying she had been acting stupid. I
am a little guarded as to the sudden change but it was great to hear fom
her. I really hope she comes to Family Dinner today.
BTW - if you
all haven't figured out yet, I am the worst speller & I have no
idea how to get my spell checker to work. So I must say sorry for all
the mis-spelled words.
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